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Scots pine Pinus sylvestris cone and needles.  Pen and ink illustration with top colour.

Snow-in-Summer or Dusty Miller Cerastium tomentosum sketchbook study showing habit sketch and detail of an asexual sprig. Seed and seed coat detail, calyx, leaf, flower and flower cross section are also depicted.  Details of the bud and fur on leaf also appear.

Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris with needles leaves and cone

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris tree showing typical growth with fallen lower branches

Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus plant with lemma, ligule, and spikelet detail

Vipers Bugloss Echium vulgare flowering spike

Small scabious Scabiosa columbaria with flower detail and showing vegetative growth along a stolon

Rosebay Willowherb Chamaenerion angustifolium

Rye Secale cereale whole plant and seedhead

sheeps fescue festuca ovina with spikelet, lemma and ligule detail

Mat grass Nardus scticta tuft with residual basal growth and detail of individual lemma